Anthony de Feo

Feb 18, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Anthony de Feo |Julia Bourbois |Jimena Escoto |Jennifer S. Musawwir

Despite the enormity of whales, those pursuing them could go weeks, even months at a time without seeing a single one. With all that time between hunts, sailors needed something to occupy their hands with. From boredom was born the scrimshander. He is the artist who carves scrimshaw: images etched into pieces of bone, antler, or the like. This tradition, which may have early prehistoric origins, is more widely considered the one, true, American art.

Jul 23, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Anthony de Feo |Tommy Thiange |Joanna Kaszubowska |Maya Tola

When Jay Phipps and Margarita Grace married on November 4th, 1903, they wed at Battle Abbey in East Sussex, England. There the 1066 Battle of Hastings ended with the Saxons’ defeat at the hands of William the Conqueror, marking the beginning of the Norman conquest of England. When Phipps took his new wife back to the United States, he bought about 200 acres of Quaker farmland in Old Westbury, Long Island.